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21. I Lost My Body

Johnbobb: 11
Evillord: 13
Karo: 25
Ermine: 25
Red: 27
Inviso: 30

Total: 131

Johnbobb: Someone saw Thing in the Addams Family and thought "there's a story to be told here." They were right! It's a great story.

Evillord: Even though I'm not normally a sucker for romances, I thought all the scenes with Naoufel and Gabrielle in this movie were really cute and well-written. I also really liked the hand's storyline, but my concern with this one is that it's two mostly-separate halves (they do come together in the end) that don't fit too well together, even though I enjoyed watching them both individually. It's sad to see that this is the last French movie on the list, because I liked them all a lot.

Karo: This is actually two movies running concurrently, the story of a missing hand looking for the rest of its body, and the story of a pizza delivery guy with a crush on a girl.
This 'romance' starts with the dude hearing a girl's voice on an intercom while failing as a delivery boy, and falling in love with her for some reason. This dumb kid then looks up this girl's personal info, stalks her all day, and then browbeats her uncle into hiring him just so he can get close to her and then is like 'why u no leik me :('
Jesus Christ, this is the kind of story I expect to see on incel forums, not in an oscar-nomimated animated movie.
The journeys of the disembodied hand are the strongest part of the movie, not only does it have incredible artistry in its cinematography and music, but oddly enough little Grabby McHandjob is the most compelling character in the narrative.
It would have been much better as an experimental short film about the hand, with the dumbass delivery boy and his lame story kicked to the curb (and kicked in the balls for good measure).

Ermine: I disliked the first half of this movie with the guy's hand and I don't think some of the beginning scenes really added much to the overall story that the film was trying to tell. Like I don't need to see a hand strangle a pigeon for a minute or fight with a bunch of rats. I also really question the decision to make this a Rated R movie. I think most of the scenes (except one) that would earn the movie that rating added absolutely nothing to the film and really could have just been done away with. The hand being cut off scene... Yes, that was important and integral to the film... but even that could have been toned down slightly perhaps, maybe at the actual cutting part to be slightly less gorey.

Some really good music though, there's a track in particular I really enjoy and the back half of this film is pretty decent.

Red: The story of a severed hand trying to reunite with its body. Actually its not and the severed had plot is ultimately pointless padding that never really serves any purpose. He cuts his hand in an act of stupidity by never learning the one thing he was attempted to be taught at the beginning of the movie, because we want a severed hand subplot that isn't really related to anything. The hand is kind of a jerk to all the animals too, so there isn't much to like about it. But the actual plot has fake conflict over information withheld from each other for not much reason and the film really feels like they knew how they wanted the middle to go but no real way for any character arcs to end. It was an interesting main plot middle, but the end is a bit rushed and the hand adventure adds nothing.

Inviso: This one is strange, to say the least. Its like youve got a short film about a disembodied hand wandering around, and then the rest of the runtime is meant to develop the character and explain how exactly he got to lose his hand. But its hard to enjoy this film for me, because I absolutely hated the main character. Hes just such a socially-awkward loser, and Im sorry, but I dont want to watch a movie about myself, striking out with a girl after awkwardly chasing after her. Keep in mind, this character stalks a girl, inserts himself into her life, and then thinks it will be some kind of romantic gesture to reveal that he was stalking her the whole time. And then this all results in him getting upset at a party, having a rough night, and slicing his own hand off with a bandsaw due to lack of sleep. The ending is justit feels its supposed to be triumphant, but at the same time, it doesnt feel like the main character earned that triumph in any way. Ultimately, I will rank this higher it perhaps deserves because the characterization is decent, if not even remotely enjoyable, and this feel like it deserves better than some of the trash movies Ive watched that still outrank other artistic films on this list.